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I graduated in Electrical Engineering in 1986 from Walchand College of Engineering, Sangli (India). I was lecturer at KIT's College of Engineering, Kolhapur during 1986-1989. Then onwards till today, I am serving at Walchand College of Engineering, Sangli as Associate Professor in Electronics Engineering. I have been the recipient of "Best Teacher Award" in 2010 of my Institute.

I completed my Post Graduation in Electronics in 1992. I was a research scholar during 1996-1999 at CEDT, IISc, Bangalore. I completed PhD in July 2015 and my research area was "MPEG video transport over packet switched networks".

﻿I have been teaching Embedded System Design, Real Time Operating Systems for UG and PG. Recently I have designed two new courses, Embedded Linux for PG and Electronic System Design and Manufacturing for UG. Currently I am teaching both these courses. Before that, I have been teaching courses such as Linear Integrated Circuits, Video Engineering, Electronic System Design etc sing 1986 for nearly 15 years.

I am interested in teaching students (actually helping them learn), making then understand the core topics of electronics engineering, creating e-learning resources for them, motivating them to learn, trying to make them better human beings, use the student power to do something constructive and useful for students themselves as well as society. These are the things I love to do. I like to make my class as interactive as possible. I also love to use technology in class room for better presentation and understanding. I use macbook for presentations and recording classroom sessions and also use iPad for illustrating complex concepts. The use of virtual machines on macbook allows me to switch between mac, Windows and Linux quickly and makes it easy for students to see the things happening through simulation and/or classroom demo.

I have also designed a 400HP soft-starter for induction motors. I have been working on PIC based designs since 1997. I have extensively worked on PIC processors and also designed a USB based programmer for PIC16F877A. I am at present working on Cortex-M3 based designs. I have recently implemented FAT32 file system and USB host interfacing and related software on LPC1768. Last year we developed a simple beagle bone cape for easily teaching embedded Linux. My current PG projects are Design of Marine surveillance system using embedded Linux and Design of Point of Sale unit using beagle bone black. As a part of my research work I have developed a network simulator (transport layer) on Linux, that can be used to study the IP packet forwarding algorithms and their effect on quality of service of the video traffic.

I have conducted numerous courses, workshops at WCE, Sangli for students, faculty and industries. I had organized a one week workshop in Jan 2014 with Dr. James Conrad, Professor at North Carolina, US, on Embedded System Design, for PG students. I have published a few research papers in International journals and have published article on "Handling GPIO in Embedded Linux" in Electronics For You, (Feb 2014)

I use moodle to manage my courses in my institute. I record my lectures PG lectures, and ask absent students to edit and post them on our server. By this they understand the topic as well I get my job done. I have also setup a streaming video server at my institute to host my own videos as well as NPTEL videos. To see some of my videos visit "vbdharm" channel on youtube.

I was faculty adviser for Personality Advancement Circle of Engineers, an energetic student group in my institute. I also was Coordinator for Central Computing Facility and Coordinator for Industry-Institute Partnership Cell in my institute. I was looking after examination cell of our autonomous institute, as Controller of Examinations from 2011-2014. I was head of the electronics department during 2015-16. I setup the John Deere Advanced Research Centre for Embedded System Design and also updated the EDA and microcontroller labs.

​At present, I am the coordinator for John Deere Research Centre in our department. Also working as TEQIP-III coordinator of the institute.

I am deeply indebted to all my teachers/mentors/friends for having learnt a lot of things from them (and not to forget, some of my students)

When at home, I like to sing, read books. I like to play tabla (just started to learn). I have my small lab at home which I use for designing circuits, build, test and then use them for conducting lab sessions in my lab courses.

I look forward to provide my students the best of the knowledge in the easiest way. Your help will make it happen faster... In case I can be helpful to you, let me know it...(You can contact me through feedback form)